After Aneurysm, PO Boy Thriving

A preschooler who suffered an aneurysm after an ATV crash late last spring has fully recovered and doesn't shown any signs of developmental delay.

"He is 100 percent back to himself and doing everything he was doing prior to his accident," David Price's mother, Brittany, wrote in an e-mail. "He passed all the school district's tests with flying colors and will not be receiving any special services. They said just enroll him in regular school next fall."

The 4-year-old was at a birthday party in Silverdale on June 2, riding a four-wheeler, when he and an adult on a full-sized motorcycle collided. Kitsap County sheriff's deputies determined that the crash was accidental and alcohol was not involved.

David had experience riding and was wearing a helmet, but he went into seizures following the crash. He was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center and underwent surgery. His parents, Billy and Brittany Price, were fixtures at the Seattle hospital during his recovery.

Doctors discovered that instead of injuries from the wreck, David had an aneurysm that may have started when a blood clot in his brain was jostled loose. A silver lining of the injury was that David experienced the aneurysm when he was young, rather than as an adult, when the damage could have been more serious.

Brittany Price said David's injuries resulting solely from the crash amounted to a few bruises.

Family members were told that he faced therapy and may have some developmental difficulties, but his family was overjoyed by his recovery. David is currently in preschool with kids his own age.

He has been keeping busy with the family's litter of puppies and got a visit from one of the Kitsap County sheriff's deputies who arrived at the scene of the crash.